MELISSA VICTORIA HARRIS-PERRY
PUBLICATIONS
Harris-Perry, Melissa. 2011. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America. New
Haven: Yale University Press.
Nominee:
2012 NAACP Image Award: Non-Fiction Category
2012 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2004. Barbershops, Bibles, and B.E.T: Everyday Talk and Black Political
Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Winner:
2005 W.E.B Du Bois Book Award from National Conference of Black Political Scientists
2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political
Science Association.
Harris-Perry, Melissa 2014. Foreword. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America.
Ayanna Byrd and Lori Tharps (Editors) New York: St Martin Griffin’s Press.
Harris-Perry, Melissa and William M. Harris, Sr. 2014. Ethical Dilemmas in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Planning. Chapter in New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning. Carol Reese, Michael
Sorkin and Anthony Fontenot (Editors). New York: Verso Publications.
Harris-Perry, Melissa. Foreword. Black Female Sexualities. Trimiko Melancon and Joanne Braxton
(Editors). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2010. Is the Tea Party the Birth of a Nation? Dangerous Brew. Laura Flanders
(Editor)
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2010. Obama and the Sisters. Chapter 8 in WHO SHOULD BE FIRST?
Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Editor Beverly Guy-Shetfhall. SUNY Press.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa 2010. Who Died and Made Tavis King? Best African American Essays 2010.
Gerald Early and Randall Kennedy (Editors)
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2008. African Americans, Religion, and the American Presidency. Chapter 9 in
Religion, Race, and the American Presidency. Gaston Espinosa (editor). Rowan and Littlefield
Publishers: New York.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2008. Do You Know what it Means…Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of
Katrina. Chapter 11 in Seeking Higher Ground. Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke. (Editors) Palgrave
McMillan: New York.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. Talking about Race. Book Review Symposium. Perspectives on Politics.
September 2008. Volume 6, Number 3.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. Political Science and the Study of African American Public Opinion. 2007.
African American Perspectives on Political Science. Wilbur Rich: Editor. Temple University Press.
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Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2007. Do You Know what it Means…Mapping Emotion in the Aftermath of
Katrina. Souls. Volume 9, Number 1.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2007. Righteous Politics: The Role of the Black Church in Contemporary
Politics. Cross Currents. Volume 57, Number 2.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa and Jane Junn. 2007. Old Friends and New Alliances: How the 2004 Illinois
Senate Race Complicates the Study of Race and Religion Journal of Black Studies 2007 38: 30-50
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2007. Liberation to Mutual Fund: The Political Consequences of Differing
Notions of Christ in the African American Church. From Pews to Polling Places: Political Mobilization
in the American Religious Mosaic. J. Matthew Wilson (Editor) Georgetown University Press.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2005. Contributions of Black Women in Political Science to a More Just
World. Politics and Gender. December 2005.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2005. African American Political Ideology. Encyclopedia of African-American
Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. Colin Palmer (Editor)
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa and Albertson, Bethany. 2005. Good Times? Understanding African American
Misperceptions of Racial Economic Fortunes. Journal of Black Studies. Volume 35, Number 5.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2003. The Heart of the Politics of Race: Centering Black People in the Study of
White Racial Attitudes. Journal of Black Studies. Volume 34, Number 2.
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa. 2002. No Place to Rest: African American Political Attitudes and the Myth of
Black Women’s Strength. Women and Politics. Volume 23. Issue 3.
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
Harris-Perry, Melissa. Race Talk: Engaging Across America’s Great Divide. Under contract with Yale
University Press
Harris-Perry, Melissa and Blair L.M Kelley. (Editors) Contemporary Feminism and Anna Julia Cooper’s
Voice From the South. Under contract with Yale University Press
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